Rapports et notes de synthèse
Maternal nutrition in emergencies
Current evidence underlines the importance of the nutritional status of women as a crucial factor in the survival, healthy growth and development of her children. Although it is the subject of less global attention, maternal nutrition is also crucial for women’s own ability to live a healthy life...
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Rights-based approaches to Food Security in Protracted Crises
Dear Members,
We would like to invite you to the online discussion Rights-based approaches to Food Security in Protracted Crises, launched today by the Community of Practice on Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises.
There are certainly many challenges to the successful application of rights based approaches in protracted crises settings such as weak central governments or having to deal with non-state actors. With this discussion we would like you to help us further explore these challenges and how they can be overcome.
The discussion will be facilitated by Joseph Schechla from Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights Network, Egypt and by Mauricio Rosales from the Right to Food team of FAO, Italy.
It is the third of a series of four, which form part of the process to elaborate an Agenda for Action to address food insecurity in protracted crises. The inputs received through these discussions will inform and shape the elaboration of an Agenda for Action, which will be considered by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2014.
Please read the full topic below and join the discussion on the web page. The topic is also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish and we accept comments in any of these languages. This discussion will be open until 12 November 2013.
We look forward to hearing from you!
FSN Forum Team
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http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/protracted-crises/
Consultations
Quel est le rôle des relations sociales et de leurs réseaux dans la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition des ménages?
La capacité d’accéder à et de consommer des aliments nutritifs est, dans une certaine mesure, le résultat de l'appartenance et de relations avec d’autres membres de la société. C'est particulièrement vrai en temps de crise. Cette discussion va se centrer sur le rôle des relations et des réseaux sociaux dans la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition afin de détecter et d'analyser les cas de succès, les enjeux et la voie à suivre pour parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle.
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Insectes comestibles – Perspectives pour la sécurité alimentaire et l'alimentation animale
Les insectes comestibles ont toujours été au menu des hommes, mais dans quelques sociétés un certain degré de dédain et de dégoût s’oppose à leur consommation. La majorité des insectes consommés sont encore récoltés dans leurs habitats forestiers, mais il existe désormais des systèmes d’élevage dans...
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Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male...
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Localizing demand and supply of environmental services: Interaction with property rights, collective action and the welfare of the poor
Payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly discussed as appropriate mechanisms for matching the de mand for environmental services with the incentives of land users whose actions m odify the supply of those environmental services. While there has been considerable discussion of the...
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New course: Linking emergency aid to food and nutrition security 15 – 26 April, 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Wageningen UR-Centre for Development Innovation is organising a new course on Linking Emergency Aid to Food and Nutrition Security. The course offers participants a chance to gain insight in the inter-disciplinary and integrated nature of food and nutrition security in an emergency setting, in particular the role of stakeholders, institutions, and innovative governance/donor interventions to build resilience. In addition, it stimulates participants to consider their own role as manager, policy maker or practitioner, making use of a wide range of principles and tools, to strengthen their interventions to make the transition from emergency towards food and nutrition security.
Asia Pacific Food Situation Update
Themes:
- Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines banana harvest hard
- Global food prices fall slightly in November
- Afghan domestic wheat flour prices rising
- Asia cereals harvest at record level in 2012
- Iran paying higher prices for commodities because of sanctions
- Viet Nam achieves record rice exports
- Indonesia and the Philippines likely to cut rice imports
- Scientists unlock key sections of wheat genome
- Favourable weather helping Afghan wheat crop
- Russian wheat threatened by coldest winter in years
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/an040e/an040e.pdf
Lifting the veil of mystery surrounding bats
FAO published a new guide on the role of bats in agricuture titled Investigating the role of bats in emerging zoonoses
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http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/154452/icode/
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Consultations
How to better understand and respond to the vulnerability of households in the Sahel and in West Africa?
Les communautés sahéliennes de l’Afrique de l’ouest (Niger, Burkina Faso et Mali) font face, d’année en année, a des aléas, tels que la sécheresse et cela malgré toutes les aides octroyés pour les institutions internationales. Il s’agit de populations endettées, vivant dans la pauvreté chronique et sans grands moyens et qui s’efforcent de faire face à ces chocs.